Every organization is trying to develop a cloud strategy, but as they try to move workloads to the cloud, they are running into the wall known as the CAP theorem. The CAP theorem says it is impossible for a distributed data store to simultaneously provide more than two out of three guarantees: consistency, availability, partition tolerance. Most on-premises storage systems, for example, deliver excellent consistency and partition tolerance but not cross-region availability, but most cloud storage architectures only deliver multi-region availability and partition tolerance.
In this ChalkTalk Video Ron Bianchini CEO and Founder of Avere Systems joins Storage Switzerland to discuss why the principles behind the CAP theorem make cloud transition difficult and how to get around the theorem and deliver all three guarantees.
George Crump is the Chief Marketing Officer at VergeIO, the leader in Ultraconverged Infrastructure. Prior to VergeIO he was Chief Product Strategist at StorONE. Before assuming roles with innovative technology vendors, George spent almost 14 years as the founder and lead analyst at Storage Switzerland. In his spare time, he continues to write blogs on Storage Switzerland to educate IT professionals on all aspects of data center storage. He is the primary contributor to Storage Switzerland and is a heavily sought-after public speaker. With over 30 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US, he has seen the birth of such technologies as RAID, NAS, SAN, Virtualization, Cloud, and Enterprise Flash. Before founding Storage Switzerland, he was CTO at one of the nation's largest storage integrators, where he was in charge of technology testing, integration, and product selection.
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